Tottenham put an end to a 17 -year -old series without trophy by winning the Europa League and this could arouse a success at the club if the Ange Postocoou coach remains in his work or not. The Australian has led Spurs to his first European trophy since 1984, but could be dismissed with the 17th League team in their worst national campaign since they were promoted in the high flight in 1978. Their 1-0 victory against Manchester United in Bilbao won the football of the Champions of Tottenham and potentially $ 100 million ($ 134 million).
It is money that could be used to strengthen a team that lacks quality in certain regions, but has also been hampered by injuries.
However, the biggest step forward for the Spurs could be at the psychological level, after having ended a sterile spell covering nearly two decades because they won the League Cup in 2008.
Postcoglou accepted that he was not in charge next season, but said he thought that his players would be reinforced by experience.
“Unfortunately, the longer it goes, it is more difficult to break this cycle sometimes,” he said.
“Until you remove this monkey from your back, you don’t understand what it looks like.”
The coach said that his young side would begin to want to have a taste for success and now understood the work they had to do to achieve it.
“We have a very young group of players and you can tell them about the success and what it means, but until they feel it, it does not become real and I have no doubt that all these boys this evening will have this feeling will want again and to recover it, they will have to make similar sacrifices,” he told journalists.
“They have climbed a mountain now so that they know what it takes to happen where we are and I think it accelerates the opportunities to build a team that can be successful and competitive at the highest level for years to come.”
Postcoglou watched a slight withdrawal while his players celebrated wildly.
The coach described himself as a “series winner” and said that he had learned one or two things while picking up trophies with Celtic, and the Australian side Brisbane Roar among others.
“I learned to understand that what makes nights like these memorables is to remember,” he said.
“I get back and watch everyone enjoy it and that’s all I need.”
‘What will be, will be’
Tottenham experienced sorrow in the final of the Champions League in English in Madrid in 2019, when they fell 2-0 against Liverpool.
Although none of the young players of the club, including the scorer Brennan Johnson, 23, was there to suffer him, the captain his Heung-Min was and he was delighted to finally win his first trophy at the club.
“I felt the pressure, I wanted so much, the last seven days that I dreamed every day … I can sleep easily now,” he said.
The grand Spurs left Harry Kane, who won the Bundesliga with Bayern Munich this season for the first trophy in his career, spent more than a decade playing for the club without being successful before leaving in 2023 to find him elsewhere.
After claiming their third crown of the Europa League, Tottenham will have another chance of raising the silverware in the super Cup of UEFA after the summer holidays, where they will face Paris Saint-Germain or Inter Milan, which meet in the final of the Champions League.
It will be a rapid test of the postcoglou theory that spurs have made significant progress, even if it is not on the bench to see it.
“I had no discussion (with the board), no one told me about anything, I will go back to my hotel room, bring my family and friends together, open a nice bottle of tape, have a few calm, prepare for a massive parade on Friday,” he said.
“Then, Monday, I go on vacation with my beautiful family because I deserve it, and” what will be, will be “.
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